Chassol delightfully opens the jazz week at the Parvis

With a tender and creative concert, Christophe Chassol launched the So Jazz festival at Le Parvis on Monday evening. This young pianist, already boasting a rich career marked by intricate musical pieces and fruitful collaborations with artists like Bertrand Burgalat and Keren Ann, offered us a dazzling performance of Big Sun. Having already distinguished himself with visual, sonic, and musical journeys through cities like New Orleans and Calcutta, he now takes us to Martinique, the island of his roots. An "Ultrascore," as he calls it, that creates a dialogue between his music and fragments of reality projected onto a large screen. The images invite us to travel, and it's his Fender Rhodes that will transport us to the other side of the Atlantic: a few notes of a bird's song, the rhythm of a conversation, or the sound of the wind in the coconut palms are all it takes for him to offer us a glimpse of an intimate Martinique, a world away from the images of travel agencies, and a delightful moment of free-spirited jazz accompanied by his electric piano and Cédric Laban's drums. A long journey of just over an hour that takes us to another world as much by the exotic atmosphere as by the freshness and freedom of the format. After this wonderful opening, the jazz week at Le Parvis continues with Eliane Elias on Wednesday evening and saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery & Supersonic on Saturday evening.